Where does “mouvman” come from?
mouvman (Antillean Creole) comes from French mouvement, from French mouvoir, from Middle French mouvoir, from Old French movoir, from Latin moveō, from Proto-Italic moweō, from Proto-Indo-European mew- — to move.
mouvman (Antillean Creole): movement
Ancestry of “mouvman”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | mouvement | movement; motion |
| 2 | French | mouvoir | to move; to go around, to move about |
| 3 | Middle French | mouvoir | to move |
| 4 | Old French | movoir | to move; to cause, set in motion; to move,... |
| 5 | Latin | moveō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | moweō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | mew- | to move |